I Compagni - M Monicelli 1963 DVD9 Custom Italian+Eng-Fr sub torrent

I COMPAGNI - LES CAMARADES - THE ORGANIZER (1963)

DVD9 Custom - From BDRip (Criterion) with FR subs added


Mario Monicelli's I Compagni (1963) is often considered among the best Italian films of the 1960s and one of the best films of Monicelli's career. An examination of a labor uprising in a Turin textile factory at the turn of the century, it offers a moving portrayal of the everyday difficulties that workers faced, to say nothing of Marcello Mastroianni's atypical but brilliant performance as Professor Giuseppe Sinigaglia, a rumpled intellectual and labor organizer.

The film was shot on location at a textile factory near Turin (Monicelli usually preferred location shooting); Monicelli and his crew also did meticulous historical research into the working conditions and labor conflicts of the era. As an Italian-French-Yugoslavian co-production, I Compagni included some well-known French actors in the cast: Bernard Blier, François Périer and Annie Girardot, who has an especially memorable role as Niobe, the prostitute who shelters Professor Sinigaglia from the authorities.

I Compagni premiered at the 35th Congress of the Socialist Party, as befits the subject matter, but it was not a great success in Italy during its initial release. Rather, it earned its reputation mainly through an enthusiastic reception abroad. In the US, its Italian title ("The Comrades") was switched out for a less obviously leftist-sounding The Organizer. When the film opened in New York (May 1964), Bosley Crowther of the New York Times called it "engrossingly human, compassionate and humorous." He especially admired Marcello Mastroianni's performance and the authentic feeling of the era evoked in the film; he wrote, "[O]ne feels right in the middle of those classic demonstrations in which the labor movement was born." The film won the prize for Best Film at the Mar del Plata film festival and was listed as one of the top foreign films of the year by both the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Board of Review. The film also developed a following with American actors and filmmakers; in a 2001 book-length interview with Mariano Sabatini and Oriana Maerini, Monicelli recalled that Burt Lancaster watched the film repeatedly, and that it was also admired by Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty and Woody Allen.


Director: Mario Monicelli
Screenplay: Mario Monicelli, Agenore Incrocci and Furio Scarpelli in collaboration with Suso Cecchi d'Amico
Director of Photography: Giuseppe Rotunno
Music: Carlo Rustichelli
Costume Design: Piero Tosi
Principal Cast:
Marcello Mastroianni
Renato Salvatori
Annie Girardot
Folco Lulli
Gabriella Giorgelli
Bernard Blier
Raffaella Carrà
François Périer
Vittorio Sanipoli
Franco Ciolli


RunTime : 2h 10mn
Audio : Italian
Subs : English - French